ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,861, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medical system and control method for medical system" was invented by Ryota Sasai (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Mori (Mitaka, Japan) and Takeaki Ishizawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system includes: an endoscope; an ultrasonic probe; and a control device that is connected to the endoscope and the ultrasonic probe, generates a display image from a captured image acquired by the endoscope, and generates an echo image from an ultrasonic wave acquired by the ultrasonic probe, wherein the control device acquires a first echo image in which a target tissue is displaye...